Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Album by Anton Bruckner & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra & Jesús López Cobos

Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the eighth symphony by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, completed in 1887. The work is a large-scale late-Romantic symphony characterised by expansive orchestration, dense contrapuntal writing and dramatic contrasts between brass chorales and lyrical string passages, and it occupies a pivotal place in Bruckner's late output as a summation of his symphonic approach.
First released: 1993

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony No. 8 in C minor: I. Allegro moderato
    15:23
  2. 2.
    Symphony No. 8 in C minor: II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato
    13:55
  3. 3.
    Symphony No. 8 in C minor: III. Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend
    24:43
  4. 4.
    Symphony No. 8 in C minor: IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell
    22:19

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